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Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of Dec. 7 - 13, 2014 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Atlantis As wedding plans progress, Ariadne (Aiysha Hart) must travel to Telemon's (Clive Standen) homeland in this new episode. 9 p.m. BBC America The Graham Norton Show "Paddington" cast members Nicole Kidman, Julie Walters and Hugh Bonneville are guests. 10 p.m. BBC America MOVIES Directed by Mike Nichols TCM is paying tribute to the director with screenings of three of his best films. Up first, at 5 p.m., Elizabeth Taylor and Richard...

"Let It Go," the soaring showstopper from “Frozen,” has an unlikely remix coming out soon.
The Academy Award-winning smash sung by Idina Menzel got a reworking by Dutch electronic dance music DJ Armin van Buuren.
His remix is just one of...

Larry Scott wasn't exactly a 98-pound weakling — he weighed in at 120 — but his life changed forever after he ran across a stack of bodybuilding magazines in an Idaho city dump.
The scrawny 16-year-old started working out in private, doing lifts with a...

Midway through an extensive exploration of the songs of Disney’s past, composer Alan Menken needed a breather. Menken, a regular Disney orchestrator since his work on 1989’s “The Little Mermaid,” fanned himself with his song sheets and joked that he might...

Dick Dodd, a Mouseketeer on Disney's original "Mickey Mouse Club" who went on to become a surf music pioneer and a youth-quaking garage rock showman, died Friday in a Fountain Valley hospital, said his close friend, Tim Ferrill. Dodd was 68.
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Rarely has middle-aged despair over dashed dreams and squandered hopes been put to more hilarious effect than in "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," Christopher Durang's giddy farce on Chekhovian themes that won the Tony for best play last...

By singing and dancing into the hearts of Depression-era America, Shirley Temple opened the door for hundreds of childhood performers to follow.
Yet the realm of stardom in which those young stars now find themselves couldn't be more different than the...

Bonnie Lynn Fields, who danced and sang her way into pop-culture posterity as one of Walt Disney's Mouseketeers, died Saturday in Richmond, Ind. She was 68.
Fields, a heavy smoker earlier in her life, was diagnosed with throat cancer about two years ago,...

At the Academy Awards ceremony in 1965, Robert and Richard Sherman already had accepted their Oscar for best score for "Mary Poppins" when they returned to the stage to pick up another statuette for best song, "Chim Chim Cher-ee."
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"Friends" star Matthew Perry has put two homes up for sale and sold a condo in the last three weeks.
His contemporary-style house in the Sunset Strip area is priced at $5,695,000.
The 4,100-square-foot mid-century modern features...

As the director of more than 100 episodes of the enduringly classic 1950s sitcom "I Love Lucy," William Asher considered the first episode he directed to be one of his most memorable: Lucy and Ethel working in a chocolate factory.
But for...

The Encino home of ailing actress Annette Funicello caught fire Thursday, sending three occupants to the hospital as a precaution. Apparently no one suffered any fire-related injuries, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. It was unclear if Funicello w

Singer and actor Frankie Avalon has sold his golf course retreat in La Quinta for $955,000.
The three-bedroom, 3 1/2 -bathroom, 3,285-square-foot house looks out over a pool and spa to a fairway and the mountains beyond in the PGA West...